# Your Docker installation is not working correctly?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/26276
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [March 12, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/26276 "2015-03-12T16:51:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Fillaume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@Fillaume](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fillaume)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/26276/1 "2015-03-12T16:51:42Z")

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Hi, i trying to follow [discourse/docs/INSTALL.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md)

Debian Wheezy  
Docker version 1.5

```
> ./launcher bootstrap app
> time="2015-03-12T17:45:08+01:00" level="fatal" msg="Error response from daemon: Cannot start container f667a79b0a5fd56be273b0619ea67a6ae0ca7458b334d310ab05ac7d0a673f5f: fork/exec /var/lib/docker/init/dockerinit-1.5.0: invalid argument"
> Your Docker installation is not working correctly

> See: https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-error-on-bootstrap/13657/18?u=sam

```

Please i need help ^^.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/26276/2 "2015-03-12T21:09:24Z")

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Debian is too much conservative about the package they use which apparently breaks Docker ☹

> [@Why does Discourse have to use Docker?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-discourse-have-to-use-docker/26041/18):
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> Debian is horrible. We don’t recommend it. You can’t even run Docker on it for the same reason.

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### Author: ![Fillaume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@Fillaume](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fillaume)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/26276/3 "2015-03-15T20:04:17Z")

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Thanks for your answer.

I can’t not change the system OS i have already many application install on my server and it will be huge work to reinstall all.

Do someone know a workaround to install docker on debian?

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### Author: ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-docker-installation-is-not-working-correctly/26276/4 "2015-03-15T20:48:00Z")

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No, there is no easy workaround, short of installing a backported kernel with aufs support. If that’s not an option and you’re really stuck with Debian wheezy, you might as well attempt an unsupported docker-less installation.